Shipping-package.



P. 'I'. SNYDER.

SHIPPING PACKAGE. Y APPLIGATION FILED 111111.19. 1913.

1,108,937. Y 1 Patented sept.1,1914

2" 52m-dee 5.951%@ PARKE '1'. SNYDER, OF HICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHIPPING-PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 1,1914.

Application led March 19, 1913. Serial No. 755,478.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it` known that I, PARKE T. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shipping packages and more particularly, in some of its features, to metallic shipping barrels.

One desideratum of a shipping package, which I attain by my invention, is to render the package strong and durable, and so to effect the closure that its presence 'tends to increase the strength of the structure, and furthermore it is desirable that the construction be such that filling of the package, or the outward pressure due thereto, tends rather to enhance the effectiveness of the closure than to detract therefrom.

My invention provides a package, the wall and heads of which may be formed wholly of sheet metal, wherein the joints between connecting peripheral parts of the body and heads are substantially effected, the connecting parts being mutually stable when the package is closed, and readily accessible for emplacement or removal.

Furthermore, my invention provides a package which is simple and strong in construction; cheap and easyI of manufacture, involving only three vmajor parts; capable of being closed many times without ,defacement or mutilation; and adapted to be shipped or stored in knocked-down condition, when occasion demands, and to be used over and over many times.

Many other objects are provided for by my invention, which will become apparent to those lskilled in the art, from the followy ing description and the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is an elevation with parts broken` brevity, I refer to the structurel simply as a barrel, many features of the construction may-be employed and incorporated in other forms of packages with more or less of the advantage herein referred to without departure from the spirit of myinvention.

10 indicates in general the central-bodyT portion of the barrel preferably formed of a. single piece of sheet metal that may be vertically corrugated, as at 11, throughout its entire periphery. While the drawing shows the walls in a straight vertical line it is, of

course, apparent that they may take the form of a cent-rally swelled body of a bilge barrel and still embrace or cont-ain all the advantageous features present -in the barrel wherein the side walls are in a4 straight vertical line, or as in the vessel of this character which is usuallyireferred t0 as a drum.

The extremities of theb'ody 10 are overlapped and aretemporarily held together by means of a staple 13, of which there may' be one or more at each end of the structure..

f1`he object of the staple is to hold the parts 1n relation until the emplacement of the heads, after which the heads will serve to Specifically, .the respective inner of the barrel body by means of an insertV ible `p in'or key.- Specifically, each head 14 provides an annular basef15, a/ central disk 16, displaced or dished inwardly to provide an abrupt interior shoulder 17, preferably inwardly inclined, surrounding the base 15, and a circumferential `exterior rim or ange 18 providing between the walls 17 and 18 of the head an annular interior groove of width equal to the width of the corrugated surfaces of the body part 10. Bv this structure the disk 16 is inwardly displaced so as to radially support the walls 10 and to provide a chime in 'the annular outwardly extended wall 17 and 18. By this arrangement a strong diametric support for the outer vertical walls of the vessel is provided toresislt inward pressure and furthermorev this arrangement displaces the -main portion of ill the closure, so that the Weight of the barrel, and contents, will rest upon the base portion While the ,inner wall 16 Will he raised above contact with intervening obstructions. To give further strength to the disky or body portion of the closures 14, l may impress concentric beads 19 therein.

Near the outer upper edge of the body portion l0 of the structure, l Yimpress or in-V dent grooves or notches 20 .as coperating means for holding the closure in place. These grooves are shown as :made in the eX- terior crests or aces of the outwardly turned, consecutive corrugations, as clearly shown in cross section in Fig. 8, and are covered by the flange 18 of closure lll when the latter is'in place. ln said ange, perforations 23 and 2d, properly spaced apart, are made at intervals around the periphery of the closure. These indented perforations correspond in the horizontal plane with the indentations 2G made in the body part ct the barrel, so that when the heads or elo sures ifi are placed in position Aa nail, pin, or other like key 25, may be driven through the perforations 23 and 2e and along a plurality of the indentations 2) oii'the bodypart of the vessel, therehy firmly and completely keying the closure with the hody portion of the structure. 5'llne `perforedions 23 and 2li are indented to such an extent that when the hey 25,'vvhich 'for convenience may he a finishing nail ci@ proper length and diameter, is driven-through the said periorations, the heads and points will lie Within the indented portions 23 and 2l respectively, and will not project beyond the outer surface ci the hangs 1S so the points and heads ci@ the nail or -key 25 are protected #from contact Witi other objects0 i ln its elements, will he observed that my pech-age comprises only 'three parts, the body-blank and two heads. Jihese may oloviously he stored, shipped, or handled in knocked-down condition; and set up the barrel all that is requisite is to temporarily hold the lapped ends of the hody-lolanlr together, by means of the staples or other- Wise, then slip on the heads and pass the lreys through the perforations that are inode therein. The keys, as heretofore stated, may consist of ordinary nails, or of Wires the proper length, so that should they he destroyed other hays readily he supplied from ordinary articles or" coninoerce, sach as nails or wires Without requiring special accompanying heys. This is one of 1Jhe features of value in the practicex of niy'invention. Will also he apparent 'that from the View point ci: the shipper, they structure could h loe-simpler of opera` tion, as no tools atever are necessary in ..LLY Si .om @i 1 setting np ene bail and einer une bony and incase? one head have been assembled and the barrel is filled the mere slipping on of the other head and the insertion of two or three nails is all that is necessary to prepare the package for shipment.

Whilel have herein described in some detail a vparticular embodiment of my invention, and some of the details of which I Will hereinafter claim for their specific benefit, .t Will be apparent that numerous changes may be made in `the precise embodiment of i 2. i'shipping package comprising a side wall having an imperforate groove near its edge; a closure having an exterior flange overlying said groove', and having in said flange a plurality of pairs of perforate indentations, spaced apart longitudinally oi said flange, and substantially in the same plane as said grooves, 'to receive heys which cooperate with the grooves in the Walls to hold the parts together.

3. i shipping package comprising a cor-l rugatedpside Wall having a series of notches in the outward crests ci the corrugations, near its edge; a closure having an exterior ange overlying said notches, and having in said lange perorate indentations in substantially the same plane .as said notches, to receive a key which coperates with the notches in the Wall to hold the parts together.4 c

il. A shipping package comprising a corrugated side Wall having' a series of notches in the outward crests of the corrugations, near its edge; a closure having an inset disk part and an exterior annular bead portion, radially therebeyond, to provide an inner annular groove for reception rci the edge of said side Wall, and having an outward flange extending inwardly to in-close said notches, and havin@ in said flange perforate indentations in substantially the same plane as said notches, to receive keys which cooperate vvith the notches in the Wall to hold the parts together.

in testimonywhereot l hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

. @AREE T. .'SNYDER. ln the presence ofllonnn BAH-I,

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